The opportunity to shine for your high school football team under the Friday night lights is earned through a series of away-from-the-spotlight sacrifices. As Northville senior Christian Freydl has learned over the years, the games are the ultimate reward for busting your tail when no one but your teammates and coaches are watching. “Football is […]
Trailing Hartland 16-14 with time winding down in the first half of Friday’s KLAA West Division showdown, Plymouth’s football team’s season was hanging in the balance. However, following their ensuing 20-0 onslaught, Read More
The team with no mascot, no nickname and (at least temporarily) no home field came close to securing a classic comeback Friday night against Novi. Trailing 21-0 9 seconds into the second quarter, super-resilient Canton stormed Read More
It appears Plymouth High School’s Sept. 15 homecoming football game will be played at a home-away-from-home site — and the location of the highly-anticipated Plymouth-vs.-Canton football game could be held in Livonia, Northville or another Read More
Northville senior volleyball players Greta McKee and Ashlee Gnau are heart-breakers for opposing hitters. Time after time over the past few years, just when it appears a blazing kill is about to dent the Mustangs’ Read More
Barring an injury to the starter, the game-night responsibilities of high school back-up quarterbacks are pretty cut-and-dry: chart plays on a clipboard, cheer on teammates and be ready in case of an emergency. With just Read More
To say the beginning of current Salem senior volleyball players Sarah Nelson, Elise Hudak and Alayna Kuhn’s high school careers was less-than-idyllic would be a massive understatement. The trio were incoming freshmen in the Read More
When ultra-successful Northville High School baseball coach John Kostrzewa resigned in June, he left a gold mine of talent for his successor — Dan Cimini, who coached University Liggett to five state titles and is a Read More
The Livonia Churchill football team’s bus ride to New Boston Huron High School Thursday night was delayed repeatedly by flooded roads, stopped trains and multiple detours. However, once the Chargers arrived at their destination Read More
Plymouth’s football program has opted not to adopt a motivational motto this season. Instead, the Wildcats have embraced a single-word motivator: Finish. “We have to finish games, finish blocks, finish drives,” said third-year Head Read More
